My writings fall broadly within the traditions of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism, and major influences on my work to date include Hans-Georg Gadamer, Gabriel Marcel, John Dewey, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Augustine.

 

My new book is titled The Void: An Existential-Political Analysis and will be published later this year by State University of New York Press.

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Current projects include a book titled An Aesthetics of the Sacred.

Whatever free time I have is largely spent with my wife, Gwyneth, and our daughter, Evangeline, or in my home gym. I am an eleventh-generation Canadian and a practicing Roman Catholic.

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Professor

Department of Philosophy

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada